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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)when in fact it is not. This is the theory that makes sense when analyzed from the point of view of Robert Kennedy, the one person charged with the executive task of overseeing the secret operations staged against Castro and who had the security bona fides (unlike Garrison) of knowing how Oswald and other suspects really fit into the conspiracy plot equation.
Most of what we know about what happened in Dealey Plaza has been filtered and carefully reconstructed by the FBI and Warren Commission, while the CIA was busy covering the tracks of any of its own players. These "tracks" extended to the mafia, which the FBI's director himself may have been compromised by. How can we possibly trust the evidence and conclusions presented by an organization under such leadership, when the conclusions themselves tell us outright lies, for example the memo that states that the "magic bullet" was confirmed as being the actual bullet found at Parkland Hospital by those who found it, when in fact the FBI's own declassified report states the exact opposite. It should be painfully clear that the FBI was working toward the goal of obtaining a single conclusion, NOT the goal of achieving the truth in the matter, particularly when the investigation would lead down the paths that were highly classified.
What we don't know is precisely how compromised RFK himself may have been by his own short-term national security concerns. Talbot states:
http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Unredacted_-_Episode_6_-_Transcript
In some ways, its a grand human interest story as much as it's a book about the conspiracy to kill the President; but of course, thats what Bobby immediately concluded, as I say in my first chapter, on the afternoon of November 22nd, 1963. He immediately thought that the death of his brother did not just involve Lee Harvey Oswald, he thought it was a plot, and the area he looked into immediately was the CIAs secret war on Cuba, which of course was part of his own portfolio in the Kennedy administration. So it was a secret war that he was very knowledgeable about, and he knew the violent tensions that were boiling within this world, and he immediately connected Oswald, I think to the assassination, and to the secret war.
That's why I keep referring back to the book "Farewell America". If, indeed, RFK passed on the results of his investigations along with his suspicions to foreign intelligence, resulting in a book that was published in 11 languages and became a European best seller, then Americans should take particular note of its historical relevance. You can continue down the path of the narrow-minded who are blinded by the skill with which the Warren Commission attempted to frame its conclusions, but to open up your mind to the political circumstances surrounding why they were forced to do what they did in covering up an actual conspiracy, then you will begin to understand the right-wing bias and control that has kept Americans in a crippling vice for the past 60 years.